The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-07-16
TERRIBLE HEAT
And Alarming Mortality In New rari
ar Bake Oven Ton ement Houses,

And Alarming Mortality In New York.
ag Bake Oven Tenement Houses.
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The tenement house district was, very
hot last night and It's Inhabitants gave
many indications Of suffering. At mid.
night It looked as II only small percent.
age oithem had gons TO bed. Sidewalks
were crowded with men, women, children
and babies, the last named Interestingly
vocal, especially when the cry went up in
q weak, helpless whimper, that in many
cases, helped to tell the tale which Was
only too clearly revealed by tho anxious
face Of tho watchtul mother as 1t scanned
the pinched features Of the little sufferer.
II looked as though every mother OF a
Bick child In the district was giving 1t the
benefit OF such "fresh" air 80 was 10 be
had by o change from Btintng tenement
rooms TO the only trino cooler hlde.
walk. igt
The air was lis!less and 80 were tho PEG.
plo who breathed II. About the only
persons who undertook to display any
energy were those who manipulated palm
leaf fans and others who had been sent
GU. 10 "rush the growler." These did
their work IN periunctory way, the ON.
ployment Of the word "rush" In connec.
ton with the beer messengers being cd.
missible only on the acore oil ancient
ussye, their movements being painfully
slow and suggestive Of much delayed
pleasure on the part OF those who had
sent tho can on iis rounds.
| The internally Of Buferiug waa very
clearly In ratio 10 the iatness Of the suffer.
ets. Nothing in humanity could well
present more distressing picture than
tho painting form Of an adipose matron
we'll into tho two hundreds 40 she sat In
wide arm chair, with anna languid!y re.
posing by her side and breast having with
rapid palpitations. Nearly every tsne.
ment door had It's representative fat
woman, who sat silently suffering, too
weak to use the fan which lay unheeded
upon her voluminous lap or TO take. part
III the occasional discussion OF the
weather, which formed the cole staple Of
conversation. That thees victims had the
sympathy Of their friends Was clearly
shown in the fact that they invariably
had front seats. They got the frat breath
OF such cool currents rs at very long in.
terya!s came wandering along; those less
bountifully supplied with adipose .iasue
we're content to group on doorsteps and
got the benefit Of such infuitesimal pufis
Of ozone as managed to gst past tho larger
figure in front. u. <
| Next to the doorsteps tho. tenement
house Windows were the favorite n1idsum-
NOR Eight resorts, and how 1t comes that
dozens OF men and women are not found
dead on the sidewalk underneath In the
corning is mystery 10 one who looks up
and diacovers the recklessness with which
they have gone to sleep on the edge OF the
window sill. Men and women leaning
out Of windows, and in many instances
sound asleep while sitting on the sill with
the casing as prop, are seen by the dozen
any hot night in the tenement district,
aud last night they were to be found by
J tho score. s.t s3j +
| On the river side the ulr was tribe
cooler. 1. WIS laden with the question:.
BILE odor OF the harbor, but 1t was cool in
comparison with the choked-up atmo.
!, sphere OF the crowded streets, and many
remained there, seated on beer barrela OF
other convenient seats, in preference to
lgoing home.
Tho alarming increase in in.
FAINT mortality has awakened the grayest
approximations. The deaths for six days
Of last week amounted to nearly 800,
sgainst 593 births ior the same period. To
lssve the babies the Sanitary Department.
today detailed fifty young physicians for
Immediate service, each man being %.
isigued his territory in the aforementioned
districts, where the heavy mortality is oc.
curing, and it is the intention to make
the tenement-house corps permanent
. adjunct to the health-oftics staff.
Each doctor, without waiting Tor calls
will visit every family in bis district, civ.
ing advice Tree and prescriptions where
, they are wanted. IT ths patient is very
J poor. the prescriptions will bs filled ut
eanitary headquarters or at any drug store
the proprietor Of which is willing 10 aid
in the work. The visitors have ibatruc.
tons to interfere in no case with private
practice. They are to give their servicee
to such as need them and cannot pay the
doctor. The physicians are supplied with
pssseB for the St. johns Guild excursions,
with instructions to distribute them freely
whore they would do the most good.
| Chinamen in the Mott street colony
have been dying in unusual numbers this
spring and summer, and in the majority
| Of instances pulmonary complaints have
been the cause. Health Officer Magic
said this morning that with one or two
exceptions every Chinamen who had died
in this city for several years had died OF
consumption. Their dist, he said, was
no. all nutritiouu, and they we're, in reali-
lty, have starved. The use OF opium wac
also a leading cause of the trouble, though
acting in an indirect manner.
/ The position which they are obliged to
asaume in their laundry work, too, great
ly contracts their chests. President Bay
| leB1 recently made tour of inspection in
J the Chinese quarters. He found them
horded together like cattle in low, misera-
| BILE quarters, in which the atmosphere
WAS nauaeating. How lar tbia etGte OF af-
fans may affect the health OF the white
population OF the. city 10 hard to say, but
it mes been euggested IS possible that the
outcome Of the present trouble will be a
thorough investigation OF Mott street and
! that quarter by tho sanitary authorities.
A Horse Of Moro Account than Man. 4
Brooeiyn Ea1is.
Last week about the Fame hour, sud on
the came day, an editor and horse died.